Assets, Rights, Liabilities, Obligations and Functions)

L.N. 113 of 2017

DEVELOPMENT PLANNING ACT

(CAP. 552)

ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION ACT

(CAP. 549)

Environment and Development Planning Act (Assignment of

Assets, Rights, Liabilities, Obligations and Functions)

(Amendment) Regulations, 2017

IN EXERCISE of the powers conferred by article 7 of the

Development Planning Act, and in exercise of the powers conferred

by article 8 of the Environment Protection Act, the Minister for

Sustainable Development, the Environment and Climate Change and

the Parliamentary Secretary for Planning and Simplification of

Administrative Processes have made the following regulations with

regard to the assignment and transfer of assets, rights, liabilities,

obligations and functions of the Malta Environment and Planning

Authority:-

The title of these regulations is the Environment and

Development Planning Act (Assignment of Assets, Rights,

Liabilities, Obligations and Functions) (Amendment) Regulations,

2017, and these regulations shall be read and construed as one with

the Environment and Development Planning Act (Assignment of

Assets, Rights, Liabilities, Obligations and Functions) Regulations,

hereinafter referred to as "the principal regulations".

In regulation 4 of the principal regulations for the words

"by the 31st July 2016" there shall be substituted the words "by the

31st July 2017".

Immediately after regulation 5 of the principal regulations

there shall be added the following new regulation

" Enforcement

As from the 1st March 2017, the

responsibilities

Environment

and

Resources

Authority

under the

established under the Environment Protection

Environment

Protection Act.

Act shall be permanently and exclusively

assigned all compliance and enforcement

responsibilities as established under the

Environment Protection Act.".

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